Endocrine Abstracts

Background: The most common type of thyroid cancer is the well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) and that includes papillary (PTC) and follicular carcinoma (FTC). The PTC would represent 50–90% and the FTC over 15–30%. Within the PTC, the most frequent is the classical variant (over 80%), followed by follicular variant (10%) and the rest of variants (<10%). Furthermore, there are differences between PTC and FTC in age at diagnosis, local extension, multicent...

MA is a marker of greatly increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in T2DM patients.Objective: To perform a prospective study of normoalbuminuric T2DM patients, analysing the association between CVRF at baseline and the development of MA at follow-up.Materials and methods: The prospective observational study was performed at Montes de Barbanza public health center, a specialized secondary referral center, which provides ser...

Key4OI : Development and implementation of a Standard set of Outcome measures for Osteogenesis Imperfecta. Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) is a genetic disorder also known as ‘brittle bone disease’. The clinical manifestation of OI shows a wide variation. Therefore, care for patients with OI requires an interdisciplinary approach. The effectiveness of particular interventions and treatment protocols of interdisciplinary teams is not clear due to a non-standardized and w...

Background: The association between hypoglycaemia and CVEM is controversial. It is not ethical or practical to design RCTs to study this association as the primary clinical outcome measure. Therefore, utilization of epidemiological principles to study this association is essential.Objective: To systematically explore the data from MA, RCTs and OBS on hypoglycaemia and CVEM applying Bradford Hill criteria [strength, consistency, dose response or biologica...

Introduction: Sensitivity and specificity of thyroid cytology in our series of thyroidectomies were evaluated.Material and methods: A retrospective, multicentre study of 1567 thyroidectomies performed in the eight hospitals of Castilla La Mancha (Spain) during the years 2010–2013.Results: The cytological results were benign in 37.6% of cases, malignant or suspicious of malignancy in 17.3% (10 and 7.3% respectively). In 4.1% of...

Background: Previous studies have suggested that serum thyroglobulin (Tg) levels at the time of 131I remnant ablation just after thyroidectomy, could be a prognostic tumor marker in differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC).Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate if serum preablation Tg in the earliest postoperative period could be useful for predicting persistence or recurrence of disease.Methods: This study was a retrospective...

Objective: Adrenal venous sampling (AVP) is a reliable procedure to differentiate if in patients with primary aldosteronism (PA) aldosterone production is unilateral or bilateral and guide the treatment of these patients. Our objective was to describe their characteristics and the outcomes of the AVPs.Methods and patients: Observational longitudinal clinical study between July 2020 and September 2021 in patients who underwent AVP in our Hospital.<p c...

Objective: Flash glucose monitoring (FGM) allows non-invasive glucose level assessment. Our objective was to describe the characteristics of patients in a secondary referral hospital and their glycemic control expressed as FGM targets.Methods and patientsObservational longitudinal clinical study between January 2021 and December 2021 in patients with DM1 referred to a secondary care center in Montilla (Córdoba).Results: 101 patients included. Mean a...

Objective: Adrenal venous sampling (AVS) is a reliable procedure to differentiate if in patients with primary aldosteronism (PA) aldosterone production is unilateral or bilateral and guide treatment of these patients. Our objective was to describe their characteristics and the outcomes of the AVS.Methods and patients: Observational longitudinal clinical study between July 2020 and November 2022 in patients who underwent AVS in our Hospital.<p class="...

Introduction: Acromegaly is associated with higher prevalence of vertebral fractures (VFx) and bone microarchitecture potentially play a role in fracture development. Trabecular bone score (TBS), a novel indicator of bone microstructure could provide additional information.Objectives: Assessment of BMD, TBS and bone turnover markers (BTM) in acromegaly patients in comparison to healthy controls with regard to gender, hypogonadism and disease activity.</p...